Amy Bernays

Lesson Learned, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2022

Somehow it is easier to overpopulate a little painting and get away with it that in a big canvas. This little painting is crowded with life. The menagerie is my daughter’s depiction of her world, the animals within it. It is blued together with the depiction of a small crowd of children looking at the precious thing. We can half make out their forms. Still a little undefined, as things are when you are only half grown up. I like to paint the happy in life. Looking for those thoughts or moments that bring me joy and define my life. I paint my children. Not just their visage, but their being. Their play, their imaginative world as well as their real world. In this series I have the kids paint...

From the series in collaboration with my children. She gets to make choices. She made a rainbow out of purples. Later wept when her Knight was taken, she hurt for the death of her ...

(on hold for exhibition, The Next Big Thing at Studio Channel Islands 8/6/22) I love this collaboration. They are so lucky to have each other. I love to hear them talk when they d...

both a noun for power, force, strength. And the past of May. This is a pair with a similar painting of his sister. This painting comes hot on the heals of a painting I did and quick...

Medium: paint chip sample mosaic on panel Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Scott Sturgill received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in De...

A contemporary oil painting on linen by American artist A.J. Fries. Artist’s Statement: These works are an extension of a small series of realistic paintings that I did of graves...

Kingsley Obasi 1983 - Current Understanding, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 152.4 x 165.1 cm 60 x 65 in

KEJ is a French artist born in 1959 who lives & works in Paris, France. He is considered to belong to the movement of Figuration Libre & Outsider Art. His works are referenced in the...